'Riverdale' Fans Are Really Convinced FP Jones Is Chic Cooper's Dad

Chic's made himself quite at home in the Cooper household, hasn't he? Riverdale's newest character—and Betty's long-lost brother—just murdered someone in cold blood and sat idly by as his estranged mother, Alice, sopped up the mess. He's also hosting bizarre web-cam shows from his bedroom—Polly's old room, mind you—and inviting strangers upstairs to join him, like Dorky Hot Dog Dude. He hovers over Betty's bed on the reg. The guy is sketchy, plain and simple. He's basically Jason Blossom, minus the creepy ghostlike features. (Seriously, you can't tell me Jason Blossom didn't look like some weird colonial spirit every time he was onscreen last season. General August Pickens is quaking in his boots.)

But the biggest mystery surrounding Chic Cooper isn't his web-cam career or his weird smile or why he killed that guy. It's his lineage. Who is Chic's father? Your knee-jerk response is probably Hal, seeing as how he told Betty last season that Alice accidentally got pregnant in high school. The face-value narrative is this golden couple wasn't ready to have a baby boy in high school, so they sent him to Sisters of Quiet Mercy after he was born and, eventually, he found them again.

This is becoming more and more unlikely with each episode, though. Hal's resentment toward Chic is off the charts. He literally left the house because Alice wouldn't kick Chic out. And then think back to when Hal said to Alice they "both know why" Chic can't stay with them. What did he mean by that? Is there more to this story? All signs point to yes.

And these fans think the signs point to FP Jones being Chic's father, and it makes sense. Remember in season one, when Alice and Hal told their high school pregnancy story to Betty—in front of FP—and everyone got increasingly agitated? FP said something to Alice akin to "You may not live on the South Side anymore. You may not dress like you're from the South Side, but we both know the truth: Snakes don't shed their skin so easily." The implication here is that Alice was a Serpent back in the day, which was confirmed in season two, and that she and FP had a fling. Before Chic was introduced, people thought the teenage Serpent Joaquin was Alice and FP's love child, but now, they've moved on to Chic.

For many of the same reasons too. Chic is presumably older than Betty, so the timeline adds up. Plus, this explains Hal's searing hatred for both FP and Chic. Perhaps he blames each of them for "messing up" his relationship with Alice.

So what does Riverdale's creator, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, have to say about all of this? Well, he told Glamour a few weeks ago it's an "assumption," not a "fact," that Chic, Betty, and Polly all have the same mother and father. "Stay tuned," he said. So, in other words, he's not dropping any hints. Add this to the very long list of mysteries Riverdale needs to crack by the summer.